stodginess
Example Sentences
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The name is tongue-in-cheek, but investors haven’t had patience for actual stodginess lately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Letterman’s offbeat, sardonic brand of humor also gave a layer of hipness to CBS, which had long had a reputation for stodginess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
The creativity of this style of quizzing, I’m convinced, is also a reaction to the stodginess that infects Indian education.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2020
The Senate — an institution that tends to boast of its stodginess — never really entered the 21st century.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
I can read between your lines with sufficient clearness; and as I always had a certain talent for stodginess I will waste no words but offer myself as the bread-and-butter.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von
